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This step-by-step procedure will allow the reader to get to and replace the optical drive responsible for reading the disc. Be aware that any replacement or teardown beyond the hard drive voids the Sony warranty.

There are two connections on the under side of the power supply on the left side. The right side should lift up easily and then with a better grip the left side will lift. This takes some force but as long as you don't pull too far and damage the cable, this extra force shouldn't damage anything.

You can't, i'm in the same boat. The only option is to buy a used ps4 that perhaps won't read discs or has some issue other than power, and use it's PSU as a replacement. But good luck with that as the Sony warranty period is still active.

Can somone help me? The pin connector won't budge for $@$*, any harder I'll tear it apart... My friend tols me ina a hurry to place something thin underneath it ( dunno what ) ... So underneath what? What is so thin? Not even paper can fit anywhere... So... Help please?

Not necessary to remove ANY of the ribbons or wires from the MAIN circuit board. Just remove the ends on the optical drive. Also WiFi cable doesn’t need to be removed, just unscrew the end and then moved…

My power supply cable was too tightly held by the aged rigid plastic board connector and I (way too easily) snapped the base connector off. Ive just hosed my ps4 because of this unessessary few steps. Sigh.

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Not necessary to remove ANY of the ribbons or wires from the MAIN circuit board. Just remove the ends on the optical drive. Also WiFi cable doesn’t need to be removed, just unscrew the end and then moved…

My power supply cable was too tightly held by the aged rigid plastic board connector and I (way too easily) snapped the base connector off. Ive just hosed my ps4 because of this unessessary few steps. Sigh.

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@Matias KAPLAN I inspected the cable thoroughly with a magnifying glass and doesn’t have an OEM part number, only AWS cables information. For aftermarket part i found it on ebay as “Brand Optical Drive Cable + Power Cable for Playstation 4 PS4 Console “ comes in pair with the other cable tho. It seems to be a regular 1x 4pin Power cable.

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The optical drive can now be lifted straight up and removed from the system.

Be aware that the optical drive is "married" to the motherboard. If you need to replace your optical drive you must remove the motherboard on the original optical drive and install it on the drive you intend to install in your PS4.

Though I have not replaced my optical drive yet. I will. I have worked on many laptops. Looking at this guide, I see that the logic board (The Mother board is the main board of the machine.) on the optical drive is connected to the drive with Z.I.F. (Zero Input Force) connectors like those disconnected in the above instructions. It should be noted that these connectors have a release. Note the brownish 'flap' at the back of the 'socket', it will either flip up, or slide out. this will make replacing the ribbon cable much easier.

I'm confused by Step 14. By "Motherboard" do you mean Logic Board? If so, is the Logic Board married to the Optical Drive or to the Motherboard? If it is married to the Optical Drive then the new Optical Drive should come with its own Logic Board correct? If not then replacing the Optical Drive and using the original Logic Board would not work? Should this actually read "the Logic Board on the Optical Drive is married to the Motherboard in the PS4"?

Where is this logic board located because I don't have a long narrow board on the bottom outside part of the blu ray drive in my PS4 as the picture above illustrates. I have this 1and1/2 inch by 2 inch board that is inbetween both the top and bottom of the drives Casing located on the top right corner of the casing as you look at the PS4 in the upside down position with the front portion facing me.

I realize that these might be foolish questions but, is that 1-1/2"by 2" board the logic board to my blu ray drive, and, do I have to swap it out with the one that will come to my house when I recieve my new blu ray drive? I don't want to have to take the PS4 apart for a second time because the logic board on my new blu ray drive wasn't recognized. Also, Would rebuilding the PS4 database by powering up the PS4 in safe mode help the PS4 motherboard recognize the new logic board if the logic board on the new blu ray drive wasn't replaced.

Hi there is a logic board on the top of the Blu-ray drive it is this small board that is paired to the PS4 mainboard so when replacing the Blu-ray drive just use the new part but keep your old board to use on the new drive

There is a small logic board on the Blu-ray drive take this off and keep it to use on the new Blu-ray drive as it’s usually mechanical or lens /laser failure not the logic board ,it is this small board that paired to the PS4 main board

They need to edit the end of this guide where it says “Be aware that the optical drive is "married" to the motherboard. If you need to replace your optical drive you must remove the motherboard on the original optical drive and install it on the drive you intend to install in your PS4. “, This seems disingenuous by ifixit. When you go to buy the drive from ifixit.com they try to sell you a drive/mobo combo. It seems to me the less knowledgeable users of this site, may think they need to buy a new motherboard when in reality they just need the disc drive and place their old logic board with the new disc drive. PLEASE FIX THE WARNING ON STEP 14! I dunno, don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist, but my trust in companies has been eroded and to me this seems intentional to sell more of their disc/mobo combinations. Maybe I’m just a bitter pessimist. Regardless, please fix step 14 to reflect reality.

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This was a great help after my 2 yr old put a coin in my PS4. However when following the steps backwards I got to step 7 which says 'Remove the 5 wire plug attached from the power supply to the motherboard' & couldn't see how to reattach it. I then noticed it looks like I've pulled the whole plastic white casing/plug holder (within the orange rectangle) off the mobo rather than just the plug from the casing. Although the pic looks like the plastic casing does come off the mobo as it's at an angle (maybe why I pulled the whole thing out or maybe I did it right).

I'm thinking I've made a mistake is because now I cant see anywhere that I can 'plug' the 5 L shaped wires on the bottom of the plastic casing back onto the mobo. Plus where they used to be attached there's now 5 tiny silver rectangles on the mobo (2 opposite 3), so I guess these 5 wires were some how adhered to those mobo rectangles by a conductive adhesive of some sort.

If you've pulled the female end from the motherboard the it need to be resoldered to the board, most likely gonna need to pull the motherboard. It's a very simple connector, sounds as if you yanked the whole thing off.

No, as the issue isn't attributable to the drive itself. The issue is the capacitive eject button and the rubber foot on the bottom of the console. The foot expands with the heating and cooling cycles of the machine, and can set off the button just by making any contact at all. I suggest removing it, cutting off the front 1/8", then reinstalling it. That's what worked for me.

I don't know which one of these to fix my Playstation 4 works fine until I put a disk in it it just says corrupted data it turns on fine the Internet works fine but games movies nothing works please someone tell me how to fix this

I recently got a PS4 form a relative that was a busted disk drive because he spilled water on it. the repair man said that the drive controll board is dead bacause foo water damage. What do i do? buy a new whole dirve or will that not work because of MARRage

I have the exact same problem, I cleaned my very dirty PS4, applied the arctic MX-2 thermal compound, put everything back together. When I fired the PS4 back on the Blu-ray drive doesn't do anything., won't take any discs, the eject button does nothing.

Were you able to fix yours? How did you do it? what was the problem? If not.... can anyone help us both?

When you remove the blu ray drive one of the most important steps to replacing it (and one that most instructions fail to mention) is the two metal tabs on the drive that hang over the back and left side. Starting withe the rear of the drive make sure the silver tab that hangs off the back slips over the plastic ridge and do the same with the other silver tab on the left side. The first time i tried to clean my optical drive i just popped it in without making sure these two tabs were in the proper position and it was as if there was no power being supplied to the drive.

Changed my ps4 blue ray disc drive with mother board cause my son put multiple games in. Ordered and installed new one but now it will not recognize cd or game when inserted. Do i have to sync new disc drive to ps4 or does it automatically do it? Please help

I went step by step replaced the drive and now there is no power. It was working fine when I took it apart now nothing... I've gone back over it 3 times... Power supply's just don't die like that do they?

I TOOK APART MY PS4 TO REPLACE MY FAN, WHICH WAS SUCCESSFUL. BUT THEN ALL THE SUDDEN MY DRIVE WILL NOT WORK. IT JUST GIVES KE AN ERROR MESSAGE. WENT BACK THROUGH AND MADE SURE EVERYTHING WAS CONNECTED PROPERLY AND IT IS. I FEAR SOMEHOW THE DAUGHTERBOARD GOT MESSD UP. I NEED TO SPEAK WITH SOMEONE FAMILIAR WITH THE ISSUE AND IM WILLING TO COMPENSATE SOMOEN WHO CAN POINT ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

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I have a problem! i bought a bdp-020 wich is the one that was inside my console! but when i try to play something i got this error "CE-35888-2" and when i tried to update i got this one "e-ffffffff " help me please.

Thanks i was trying to find my model optical drive for so long as a replacement for my current one but after seeing your awareness comment at the end then i'm guessing that i can just buy any new replacement optical drive i just need to take the motherboard off of my current one and put it on the new one is that right ?

So quick question. By married motherboard do you mean the board that is on the optical drive itself or are you referring to the whole system board of the PS4? If I bought a new disc drive online and swapped out the disc drive motherboards would that work? Any soldering required, or simply remove some screws? Thank you for your help, just need a quick answer!

My PS4 is doing the thing where it's constantly trying to eject a disk that isn't in there. It had been doing this for a long time so I tightened the manual "eject" screw, turned it on it's side, removed the rubber foot, unplugged it from the way and let it sit for 10 mins, etc (pretty much everything on the interwebs) this worked for a a few months but it's back to it's old habits. Am I able to just removed the optical drive? All my games are digital copies anywho and having the optical drive has just been annoying (it's now at the point where it ejects every 30 seconds) due to the ejection noises and the beeping.

Yeah I'm with you. I've tried all that and more. Turning the manual eject screw seemed a temporary fix but even that doesn't work now. Still beeps and ejects. That's why i'm here. Will it help to replace the drive entirely or not? Seems not. I'm mostly digital but I still do have a need for the optical drive.

I removed my old disc drive because it wouldn't accept discs at all. It wouldn't even make a noise....almost like it was just DEAD. So I bought a brand new blu Ray optical drive for the PS4 and I removed the old one and installed the new one. I removed the motherboard from the old and screwed it onto the new one. I am sure I've installed everything like it should be but when I go to insert a disk.... I GET THE EXACT SAME RESULT!!!! No noise and it won't accept the disc. Please help if anyone can think of something I might have forgotten to do or overlooked.

I just don't underatand, I bought another optical drive with a new laser installed and I took out the optical mother board from the new drive replacing it with the original one and I still get un recognized discs and I know for a fact it's the optical drive mother board because I tested the new optical drive with it's mother board and I could play blue rays but not ps4 games which gave me an error pretty much saying not compatable. I swapped back to the original optical mother board and pretty much back to normal again, not recognizing discs and I checked everything, even the rollers. I just don't get it, I always had back luck with play stations. I don't think anyone had changed it before and therefore the optical mother board should still be original, so what's happening here?